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-to provide an educational AND empowering experience -Using content exploration as a catalyst for teaching empathy and changing our society

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I prioritize students doing the work of history
by putting primary sources at the center of the history classroom and having students grapple with those sources
(our starting point: posing a provocative question)

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“The thing you do everyday is what you should be doing with your life.”
-Alan Menken

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In Communism there is an equal distribution of misery. And in Capitalism there is an inequal distribution of blessing.
-Winston Churchill

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History teachers are the guardians of democracy.

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Use the study of the past to learn how to ask better questions about the present

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Model how informed citizens think when leaders exercise or abuse power

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Those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn history are doomed to watch it happen.

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How we use our freedom shapes whether others get to keep theirs.
- Sharon McMahon

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Let history ground you in reality.

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“I’m just a kid, Ms.” -student in the middle of taking final exam

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“If George Washington were alive, he would want us to overthrow the government.”
-APUSH student

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May the first thing we ask when we wake up be, “Lord, what are we going to do today?”

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"You have the right to your own opinion, but you don't have the right to your own facts."

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I did not dedicate my courage to You

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"what makes a practice culturally responsive is that it mimics students’ own cultural learning tools. ...these practices are helpful for all students, not targeted at minority students."

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Politicians are our employees

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Great leaders create more leaders, not followers

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"Teaching is biased when it ignores multiple perspectives and does not allow interrogation of its own assumptions and propositions."

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"Sometimes I even catch myself talking to people outside of school the way I speak to my students—explaining everything twice in different words, using careful emphasis and enunciation."
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How can you tell which side is wrong?
The side that shoots its dissidents.

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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
-John Stuart Mill